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Summary: I really don't know how someone can write better as this
Review: Fitzgerald... I started reading the Great Gatsby last year, and before you can say HO! I finished reading. My mouth was open all the time and loved, yes really loved the book. Fitzgerald is the Jazz-age man and how he displays everything of the Jazz-age in this book is so good that it is almost unbelieveble. I did almost crie. Not because it was sad but because how good Fitzgerald wrote it.
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Summary: Moving Prose
Review: This is one of the few novels I have read that move me not only by the plot and characters, but by the words themselves that the authors wrote. I find it amazing that even months after I read it for the first time there are still parts from the book that I remember almost word for word.
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Summary: Mind expanding............
Review: Written in the most poetic of prose styles, F. Scott. Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby is a most stirring novel. Every time after reading this book, I become lost in a trance, and only after navigating out of the Fitzgerald created haze, can I begin to examine his intent. There is nothing complex about this book, indeed his comment on the American Dream is straight-forward and easy to identify. Though this acknowledgement, for me, can only be truly realised on the completion and reflection of the work. Largely because Fitzgerald intices the reader to meet his characters, to feel the suffering and alienation of Gatsby, the ordinariness of Nick, and to be pushed slowly and gently by the rich current and bueaty of flow of his words. A most moving book, that despite it's obviousness transcends to something more sublime.
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Summary: A MASTERPIECE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
Review: Gatsby is a wonderful book because of the layers and layers found within it. Each time I've read the book, I've found another timely social commentary. What amazes me the most is the precision with which Fitzgerald composed this piece. By far, this book is the best of the high school reading requirements because of character, plot, and depth.
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Summary: brillliant
Review: the great gatsby is undoubtedly one of the all time classics, and a must. it portrays wonderfully the meaning of the american dream. gatsby is the epitome of idealism, believing that the past can be repeated, and that his love for daisy, and her love for him, can be re-kindled. his vision of the world is pure, albeit for his materialism, the reader is made to sympathize with him. beautifully written, the prose-style is poetic, lyrical and magical. f. scott-fitzgerald uses a combination of allegories, sybolism an motifs to paint a most vivid and vibrant picture of life in the 20's, and the search for the holy grail, the ideal. an almost flawless book. potent, pure, yet realistic. scott-fitzgerald allows the reader to keep believing and searching... "the milk of wonder"..."the palp of life" can be achieved...the "elusive rhythmn" .to be read over and over again.
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Summary: Superb
Review: It is, arguably, the greatest American novel. Read the last 2 pages and you are reading some of the most beautiful prose in the English language. Fitzgerald once said that he could never forgive the rich for being rich. This novel makes sense of that statement. And the last line feels like a punch in the stomach.
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Summary: Olden days
Review: This title did bring out the society of the 1920's and was very well written. Prohibition caused social problems and classes in the society and F. Scott Fitzgerald certrainly showed he had an understanding of this society. I'm sure when this was written, many people were kind of offended at his not-so-perfect depiction of the life beneath the glamour of the 20's. Now it can be appreciated and I hope no one who reviewed this book had the audacity to review this book badly because it conflicted with their personal views. I hate when that stands in the way of enjoying a good book.
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Summary: This book is the tops, Old Sport!
Review: The Great Gatsby is the best novel I think I have ever read. We had to read it in my high school English class and I loved it even then. I've read it two more time in the three years I have been out of high school, and I plan to read it at least one a year. I feel I have to, its like revisiting old friends who you wish you could help but you know you can't. This novel is awesome in the way that the characters just pop off the page. The Great Gatsby is so sad too because in the end no one "wins" except maybe for Nick who is a better man for having known Gatsby. Eventhough Nick believes that Daisy and Tom can retreat into their money and forget anything ever happened, Daisy still has to live with the fact that she got the only man who every really loved her killed, I don't think money could make her forget that. Anyway I recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read it, although if you read it when you were in high school, I suggest reading it again, because you probably missed how beautiful this book is in the rush to have it finished before the test! Also, if any of you have not seen the movie go rent it or check for it on your local classic movie channel because I've seen the movie on one of those channels at least ten times. The casting is excellent. Mia Farrow was the perfect "Daisy" beautiful, delicate, her voice "full of money." Nick, sweetly played by the lovely Sam Waterston. And lets not forget Robert Redford's portrayal of the great Jay Gatsby. I thought he did and excellent job. This movie is very beautiful and if you don't cry as Daisy and Gatsby renew their love, or when George mourns over Mrytle's body, then you are not human!! I could write all day about the book and the movie but I will just say that they are both worth checking out. Lose yourself in the decadent twenties!
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Summary: Very realistic reflection about the American Dream.
Review: The most magnificant points about this novel are the different connections of relationships between Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Myrtle, Mr. Wilson, Nick and Jordan. Furthermore, the alteration of Gatsby's materialistic dream to his connected dream of materialism, love and his past with Daisy.
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Summary: A peek into a decade of FUN and PARTY's: The 20's
Review: The Great Gatsby is honestly my favorite book of all time. Fitzgerald really displays the twenty's like no other can. Will you be able to figure out where Jay Gatsby's money comes from? Will Gatsby steal Daisy away from her wealthy husband Tom? Will narrator Nick Carraway ever really "fit in" will the East Eggers? And most importantly, will anyone ever figure out who's throwing this PARTY!? Believe me, finding out the answers to these questions is very exciting, and once you start picking up on Fitzgerald's symbolism, you won't be able to put it down!
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